IP Library Granted Patent US 9,495,911
Granted Patent B2
US 9,495,911 · App. 14/533,532 · Granted Nov 15, 2016

Display panel, driving method, and electronic apparatus

Inventors: Kazukuni Takanohashi (Kanagawa, JP); Hideyuki Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Kazunori Yasuda (Tokyo, JP); Toshiyuki Miyauchi (Kanagawa, JP); Tamotsu Ikeda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
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Patent No.
US 9,495,911
App. No.
14/533,532
Granted
Nov 15, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display panel includes: a driver section configured to generate a first pixel packet including digital luminance data; a plurality of unit pixels successively connected, each of the unit pixels configured to perform a display operation, based on the digital luminance data of the first pixel packet, and one or more of the unit pixels configured to perform a detection operation of a physical quantity thereof to generate a second pixel packet including digital detection data acquired by the detection operation and then output the second pixel packet to a subsequent one of the unit pixels; and a receiver section configured to receive the second pixel packet.

Claims (15)

1. A display panel comprising:

a first pixel that has a light sensor and a light-emitting device, the first pixel is configured to extract flag data from a first pixel packet and output a second pixel packet to a second pixel,

wherein the second pixel packet is the first pixel packet when the flag data is a first flag value, the light sensor is configured to detect light when the flag data is a second flag value, and

wherein the first pixel is configured to extract luminance data from the first pixel packet when the flag data is the second flag value, the luminance data defines a luminance of the light-emitting device.

2. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the first pixel packet has a same number of bits as the second pixel packet.

3. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the second pixel has another light sensor and another light-emitting device.

4. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device is configured to radiate a light emission.

5. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the light sensor is configured to generate detection data according to an amount of light received by the light sensor.

6. The display panel according to claim 5 , wherein the first pixel inserts the detection data into the second pixel packet when the flag data is the flag value.

7. The display panel according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a receiver section configured to use the second pixel packet to generate a detection signal.

8. The display panel according to claim 7 , further comprising:

a control section configured to use the detection signal to generate a different pixel packet, the first pixel is configured to receive the different pixel packet.

9. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the display panel according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2014
From: TAKANOHASHI, KAZUKUNI; SUZUKI, HIDEYUKI; YASUDA, KAZUNORI; MIYAUCHI, TOSHIYUKI; IKEDA, TAMOTSU
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 034108/0652 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-250779 · Dec 4, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150154905A1 · Jun 4, 2015